Retro gamer puts together a collection of almost 130 classic games that are must-plays
Gamer SAPianoman490 showed off the result of a year of work: two retro PCs built from scratch, each tuned for its own era. Shortcuts for almost 130 games released between 1996 and 2008 fit across...
Gamer ran GTA 4 with DLSS 5 on his 22-year-old CRT monitor – it looks phenomenal
A gamer going by Pete_Love combined two technologies from completely different eras. He ran Grand Theft Auto 4 from 2008 with Nvidia neural rendering DLSS 5 and pushed the image out to a professional CRT...
First reviews of the new Resident Evil adaptation - critics promise a feeling like a very good game
Zach Cregger new Resident Evil movie screened for its first audience, and the reactions came in noticeably stronger than anyone expected from yet another attempt to bring Capcom franchise to the big screen. The film...
Photos from 26 years ago showing PS2 launch lines remind us of times when people queued for the console itself, not for resale
Photos of the overnight line from October 26, 2000, and the subsequent PS2 launch have brought back memories of the good old days. The pictures show a group of people outside a store with folding...
Web development veteran compares AI's impact on frontend to an asteroid impact
Developer Nolan Lawson published a piece on August 23 on his blog Read the Tea Leaves about what's happening to frontend development in the age of agents. The main metaphor made it straight into the...
iPhone Duo hands-on impressions – 7.6-inch screen, under-display camera, and a fold in the center
It's been almost 10 years since the iPhone X set the design language for Apple's flagships, and the company hasn't released such an unconventional gadget since. The iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable smartphone, and...
Impressions after 45 minutes in Lego Skylines – a cute little town unexpectedly turns into a serious megapolis simulator
Lego Skylines looks exactly like what you'd expect at first glance, but give it half an hour and the game starts behaving quite differently. Paradox Interactive and Finnish studio Iceflake Studios showed a playable build...
Major Star Wars releases in September – Andor prequel, a book of insults, and the first canon horror
September is stacking up to be a big month for Star Wars fans: Disney gets a new Mandalorian special, bookstores receive a direct prequel novel to Andor, and comic adaptations for both Kylo Ren and...
Impressions after 30 minutes with Alien: Isolation 2 – the sequel is scarier than the original
Journalists from GamesRadar got their hands on a half-hour demo of Alien: Isolation 2 and walked away with one takeaway – the sequel presses on the nerves even harder than the 2014 original. The xenomorph...
Starks vs. Lannisters – First Impressions of RTS War for Westeros
Classic base-building real-time strategy games stopped being a mainstream genre a long time ago, so any new entry tends to grab attention. That's exactly the case with Game of Thrones: War for Westeros from PlaySide,...
Impressions after 30 minutes in the early alpha of State of Decay 3
The change of ownership at Undead Labs amid the Xbox reset left plenty of questions about the fate of the zombie survival game the studio has been working on for years. Gamescom 2026 featured a...
An investigation into The Last of Us remake showed that Naughty Dog fixed the windows and extra balls, but hid the moon and forgot about the turbine on the dam
In the dockside industrial zone from the opening of The Last of Us, there's a brick building with five second-floor windows arranged in a two-one-two pattern. Each window is nearly square and divided into 16...
Fallout creator explained using Tolkien as an example why audiences reject new ideas because of the creator's name
Tim Cain, one of the creators of Fallout and the creator of Arcanum, posted a video on his YouTube channel asking a question he doesn't have an answer to himself. Can a developer with thirty...
A longtime Civ fan shared an old photo of himself playing Civilization 3 and triggered a wave of nostalgia
A post recently appeared in the Civilization fan community that went up and set off a wave of nostalgia for thousands of series fans. User wpazzurri2 shared a childhood photo showing him sitting at a...
Resident Evil Requiem fans argue over Leon and Grace sexualization, photoshop the new protagonist into revealing outfits, and complain about censorship
The release of Resident Evil Requiem has reignited a familiar debate about character attractiveness in video games, double standards, and the supposed "censorship" of female characters. At the center of it all are the game's...
Resident Evil Requiem screenshots with path tracing are being mistaken for real photos
Resident Evil Requiem has sparked plenty of discussion beyond just its gameplay and story – the game's visuals at max settings with path tracing have left both press and players genuinely stunned. Social media is...
This French artist creates worlds of such epic scale they'll make your head spin
Looking at the work of French concept artist Paul Chadeisson produces a strange sensation – somewhere between awe and a mild vertigo from the sheer sense of scale. Massive spaceships, endless industrial complexes, megastructures next...
What happens to your Discord account if you don't complete age verification
Discord announced a global rollout of mandatory age verification in March 2026. The platform will require all users to verify their age through facial scanning or government-issued ID submission. Those who refuse the procedure will...
1,200 players, 60 days without admins or rules – how Minecraft spawned nations, wars and smuggling
Over two months without a single administrator or imposed rules, more than 1,200 unique players in Minecraft created a complete political map with borders, trade routes, embargos, prisons, libraries and even smuggling. The Eden server,...
Developer creates massive isometric pixel-art map of New York City entirely with AI
Andy Koenen, a Google Brain engineer, unveiled isometric.nyc – a massive isometric map of New York City styled after classic games like SimCity 2000, created entirely using AI coding agents. The developer didn't write a...
